It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals - too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows.

Confidential Confidential

The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine

By:
Samantha Barbas

Narrated by:
Donna Postel

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the best-selling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Confidential's spectacular rise was followed by an equally spectacular fall.

Sons of Cain

A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

By:
Peter Vronsky

Narrated by:
Mikael Naramore

Length: 15 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
16

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

5 out of 5 stars

We have met the enemy and he is us

By
Eugenia
on
31-10-18

I Will Find You

Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

By:
Joe Kenda

Narrated by:
Joe Kenda

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
100

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
91

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
89

Joe Kenda investigated 387 murder cases during his 23 years with the Colorado Springs Police Department and solved almost all of them. And he is ready to detail the cases that are too gruesome to air on television, cases that still haunt him, and the few cases where the killer got away. These cases are horrifyingly real, and the detail is so mesmerizing you won't be able to turn it off.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding autobiography

By
Retired
on
04-10-17

Mob Boss

The Life of Little Al D'arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

By:
Jerry Capeci,
Tom Robbins

Narrated by:
Michael Prichard

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
105

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
105

Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In
Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life.

5 out of 5 stars

Best mob book for a long time!

By
Philip
on
29-03-15

A Life of Crime: Memoirs of a High Court Judge

By:
Sir Harry Ognall

Narrated by:
Mike Grady

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
93

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
84

Story

4 out of 5 stars
83

A witty and candid memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge Sir Harry Ognall. The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall is a retired judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division. For many years, he enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both here and abroad.

4 out of 5 stars

not Bad for the money

By
Terry clark
on
31-08-18

For the Thrill of It

Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

By:
Simon Baatz

Narrated by:
Kevin T. Collins

Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3 out of 5 stars
2

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
2

Story

3 out of 5 stars
2

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals - too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows.

Confidential Confidential

The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine

By:
Samantha Barbas

Narrated by:
Donna Postel

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the best-selling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Confidential's spectacular rise was followed by an equally spectacular fall.

Sons of Cain

A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

By:
Peter Vronsky

Narrated by:
Mikael Naramore

Length: 15 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
16

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

5 out of 5 stars

We have met the enemy and he is us

By
Eugenia
on
31-10-18

I Will Find You

Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

By:
Joe Kenda

Narrated by:
Joe Kenda

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
100

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
91

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
89

Joe Kenda investigated 387 murder cases during his 23 years with the Colorado Springs Police Department and solved almost all of them. And he is ready to detail the cases that are too gruesome to air on television, cases that still haunt him, and the few cases where the killer got away. These cases are horrifyingly real, and the detail is so mesmerizing you won't be able to turn it off.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding autobiography

By
Retired
on
04-10-17

Mob Boss

The Life of Little Al D'arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

By:
Jerry Capeci,
Tom Robbins

Narrated by:
Michael Prichard

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
105

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
105

Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In
Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life.

5 out of 5 stars

Best mob book for a long time!

By
Philip
on
29-03-15

A Life of Crime: Memoirs of a High Court Judge

By:
Sir Harry Ognall

Narrated by:
Mike Grady

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
93

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
84

Story

4 out of 5 stars
83

A witty and candid memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge Sir Harry Ognall. The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall is a retired judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division. For many years, he enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both here and abroad.

4 out of 5 stars

not Bad for the money

By
Terry clark
on
31-08-18

The Home Front: Life in America During World War II

By:
Audible Original

Narrated by:
Martin Sheen

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
58

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
51

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

[Contains some explicit content] Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II takes listeners into the lives of Americans at home who supported the war effort and sustained the country during wartime. The war brought immediate, life-changing shifts; from the rationing of butter, to an explosion of war-related jobs, to mixed-signals about the role of women in society. Feel what living in the United States was like for everyday people during this disruptive and uncertain period of American history in the newest Audible Original series. Martha Little is the Executive Producer. Dan Gediman is the Series Producer.

5 out of 5 stars

Best audio book I have ever heard

By
Benjamin
on
27-09-17

Dangerous Dozen

Notorious USA True Crime Box Set

By:
Gregg Olsen,
Katherine Ramsland,
Rebecca Morris,
and others

Narrated by:
Kevin Pierce

Length: 25 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
13

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
12

Story

4 out of 5 stars
12

A true-crime collection culled from the crime files of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA.

2 out of 5 stars

Poor choice, questionably 'true'

By
Olly
on
19-08-18

The Pierre Hotel Affair

How Eight Gentleman Thieves Orchestrated the Largest Jewel Heist in History

By:
Daniel Simone,
Nick Sacco

Narrated by:
Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren's suite, relieving the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel - host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy.

Scores

How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History

By:
Michael D. Blutrich

Narrated by:
Michael D. Blutrich

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
48

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
47

Meet Michael Blutrich, mild-mannered New York lawyer and founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York City history, funded by the proceeds of an insurance embezzlement scheme. All Blutrich wanted was to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But the Mafia got involved, and soon the FBI came knocking. Scores became wildly popular, in part thanks to Blutrich's ability to successfully bend the rules of adult entertainment. Unfortunately for Blutrich, it would all soon implode.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant, a must listen!

By
Lee
on
19-09-17

Tough Crimes

True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers

By:
Edward L. Greenspan,
Richard Wolson,
Marilyn Sandford,
and others

Narrated by:
Bonnie Horton

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
1

Story

3 out of 5 stars
1

Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by 20 of Canada's most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book they write about cases that had surprising turns or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We've all heard the media's take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them?

Ghostly Tales

Audible Christmas Gift 2017

By:
Charles Dickens,
E. F. Benson,
J. H. Riddell,
and others

Narrated by:
Simon Callow,
Sally Phillips,
John Banks,
and others

Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
2,994

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,705

Story

4 out of 5 stars
2,703

The days are getting colder, the nights are getting longer, and as Christmas approaches the time is high for some ghostly tales. As an exclusive gift for Audible members, settle down, snuggle up and listen to four chilling ghost stories, read by Simon Callow. Four great stories, one master storyteller - what could be simpler than that?

5 out of 5 stars

really well read

By
Amazon Customer
on
20-12-17

Summary

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over 30 years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.

In addition to bank robbers - generally the dumbest criminals - Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the 20th century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.

Critic reviews

"A real page-turner of a memoir which reads like a novel. John Hailman is the toughest federal prosecutor ever to hit the state of Mississippi." (Bill Minor, syndicated columnist,
New Orleans Times-Picayune)

good book

good book but it kinda drags on with too many details at certain points in the story. Sometimes I found myself grasping at every word waiting for more then others it dragged because it went off on irrelevant points.